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Phone thieves grab and go Incidents at Everett Community College prompt police to warn cellphone users about allowing strangers to use their phone to make calls. By Rikki King Herald Writer
the berries, but delighted in skipping up and down the neat rows of plants. They pointed out the shiniest fruits and helped each other clean dirt off their legs, often making more of a mess. Kelly Dowdall, Norah’s mom, planned the trip as much for the adventure as for the sweet strawberries she picked to take home. She came to the farm with her friend, Dora Watson, Ava and Layla’s mom. Dowdall is from Redmond and Watson from
EVERETT — It’s happened two times already, and nearly a third. A man approaches a student on the Everett Community College campus and asks to use her phone. She obliges by handing it over, and he promptly runs away. Now campus security and Everett police are asking students and staff to be wary. At least once the ruse involved asking for the time, so someone would pull out a phone, EvCC spokesman Katherine Schiffner said Monday. “Don’t lend anyone your phone,” she said. “If there’s an emergency, make the call yourself.” This particular kind of theft hasn’t been reported lately in places other than the campus, Everett police officer Aaron Snell said. The investigation is ongoing. The first incident at EvCC was reported about 4 p.m. May 26 near Whitehorse Hall. Afterward, the man ran south on Broadway, Schiffner said. The second theft was about 8 p.m. June 1 near the bus station
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Annabelle Hall, 5, fits nicely between the furrows as she picks strawberries with her mother, Amy Hall, on Thursday at Biringer Farm in Arlington.
The strawberry season arrived early ... and with warm weather it may soon be over By Kari Bray Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — Mother Nature is the boss at Biringer Farm, and she doesn’t keep a consistent work schedule. This year, strawberries got the early shift. Normally, the monthlong picking season starts mid-June, longtime farm owner Dianna Biringer said. This year, berries on her farm at 21412 59th Ave. NE in Arlington were ripe by May 30. Unless the weather cools suddenly and drastically, strawberry season in Snohomish County
likely will be winding down by the end of June, when it’s usually just getting into full swing, she said. Biringer worries folks won’t make it out in time for prime picking but will show up in late June or early July to discover the berries are gone. “It’s just unpredictable,” she said. “Every year, you never know. With this heat, everything ripens real quick.” Other farms around the county are opening their strawberry patches early this year. Bailey Vegetables in Snohomish has three acres of U-pick
strawberries at 12711 Springhetti Road. They were able to open for a couple days at the end of May and opened again Thursday, owner Don Bailey said. The fifthgeneration family farm grows mostly vegetables but added strawberries four years ago. “It’s early this year,” Bailey said. “It’s definitely early. We’ll just see how many people come in with the berries.” On Thursday, the ripe red berries at Biringer Farm fascinated a trio of 3-year-old girls in colorful dresses and rubber boots. Norah and twins Ava and Layla quickly lost interest in actually picking
Estuary takes a hit from warming, low river flow Herald Writer
STANWOOD — The early summer, with its unusually hot days and low snowpack, offers a window into the future for local scientists. Researchers have turned their attention to Port Susan and the
mouth of the Stillaguamish River. Important tidal ecosystems there have been dwindling over the past two decades, and a team is studying how tide marshes and estuaries can adapt to a warming climate. Other researches are investigating how changing river flows affect the way sediment is spread, and how that could harm
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fish and increase flood risks. A lot of valuable information can be gleaned from Port Susan and the Stilly this year, said Roger Fuller, a plant ecologist with Western Washington University. “This summer’s really important to get some data because it’s such an outlier,” he said. “It can really help us understand what’s going to happen.” Looking at low rivers and high tides this year is a good way to see what experts at think tanks and universities, including the
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University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, predict will be the norm decades from now, said Eric Grossman, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Overall, local rivers are flowing at less than half the rate they normally would be this time of year, Grossman said. Some are down below a third of what would be expected in June. A gauge in the Stillaguamish near Arlington measured 379 cubic feet of water per second Monday afternoon.
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The average for that day of the year, based on 86 years of records, is 1,650 cubic feet per second. The river’s record low was in September 1938 at 140 cubic feet per second. “If we’re already at half of normal flows, and then we have a typical summer with more warming in July, August and September, we’re going to see really low lows, possibly the lowest we’ve ever seen,” Grossman said. See ESTUARY, Page A2
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1911, hatchet-wielding temperance crusader Carrie Nation died at age 64 (Today in History, Page B4). And thus a wise and just Supreme Being ensured Carrie didn’t stick around long enough to see Prohibition.
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Researchers are studying areas in the mouth of the Stillaguamish River that are being adversely affected by climate change and saltwater from Port Susan.
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